Trump says no more detainees should be released from Guantanamo Bay prison

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a
tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.”

"There should be no further releases from Gitmo. These are extremely dangerous people and should not be allowed back onto the battlefield." - Donald
J. Trump

The statement comes as the Obama administration prepares to release another 19 detainees from the facility before the president leaves office.
Currently, there are 59 detainees at the prison, including four people who also have been cleared for release by an interagency review board but are
not a part of the group of 19 and could remain detained there indefinitely. Their names have not been released.

When I read that I got I chills because it strikes me as a bit Hitleresque. Is Trump thinking that the prisoners in Gitmo are "extremely dangerous
people" because of their race and/or religious affiliation? Is anyone else a little frightened by that?

How could Trump possibly know if the prisoners in Gitmo are "extremely dangerous people" when the evidence concerning their cases is secret, and their
trials are not public? Would he be relying on the same system for making this judgment that he has decried in the past? I mean, according to Trump we
shouldn't trust the people who lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but we should believe that all the prisoners in Gitmo are "extremely
dangerous people"?

Does that raise red flags for anyone else?

Let's hope that one of us doesn't end being labeled an extremely dangerous person who shouldn't be released from prison without ever having a fair
trial.

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a
tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.”

Didn't the last guy like 'prowmiz' to close Gitmo like eight years ago ?

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a
tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.”

Didn't the last guy like 'prowmiz' to close Gitmo like eight years ago ?

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a
tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.”

Didn't the last guy like 'prowmiz' to close Gitmo like eight years ago ?

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a
tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.”

Didn't the last guy like 'prowmiz' to close Gitmo like eight years ago ?

So You are saying that Obama kept innocent people in guantanamo all this time , shocking their genitals , piling them up naked and women taking
pictures with them naked and being abused, that Obama ? ( um Id rather be waterboarded)...How "progressive" of Obama to let them out , waiting til the
last minute, holding them captive for years and years and allowing them to be brutalized in ways that personally threaten muslim values, how
"progressive" of Obama. If they are innocent then Obama kept innocent people in prison for years right ? Those people are there for a reason, proven
guilty or not. They don't just send you there because you look different.

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a
tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.”

Didn't the last guy like 'prowmiz' to close Gitmo like eight years ago ?

And we don't need another politician that doesn't even bother to read facts before opening their trap.

As noted above, 59 prisoners now remain in Guantánamo, although it is important to remember that seven of these men, like the majority of the men
released in the last three years, were cleared for release in 2009 by President Obama's Guantánamo Review Task Force, and they are listed below. The
identities of 56 men cleared for release by the task force were made available in a document released by the Department of Justice in a court case in
September 2012, and this information is also included.

In March 2014, we also added information about 25 men who had been recommended for prosecution by the task force in 2010, but in April 2013 had been
determined to be eligible for Periodic Review Boards. We wrote about this here, based on a list obtained through FOIA legislation by Jason Leopold of
Al-Jazeera. Please note that all the prisoners recommended for continued detention are also supposed to receive PRBs.

This is a bigger issue than Trump and it sucks that it's being spun into one of those pro/anti topics. This is more important than Democrat vs.
Republican and left vs. right. Both sides, for many years, allowed us to get to this point and both sides are to blame.

A serious conversation about this whole practice has been overdue for a long time. Not just from the U.S. either, other countries keep people locked
away in secret as well.

It's my opinion that this is all bad. I fully support giving those people held a fair, normal, trial and if they actually broke laws then punish
accordingly. If not, that's where things get tricky. The part of me with a heart says they should be released.

But you're dealing with long term psy-ops at that point. You just minted a new enemy that will likely use their experiences to rally more to their
cause. That kind of damage can affect generations and is nothing to be trivialized. That stuff affects the U.S. as well as the people's home
nations.

I don't have answers and I don't have the information needed to make a clear decision about my stance. But, without a good reason beyond anyone saying
they're just dangerous people, I don't think they should stay locked up. That's not carved in stone though. There could be some very good reasons why
they should be.

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a
tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.”

Didn't the last guy like 'prowmiz' to close Gitmo like eight years ago ?

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a
tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.”

Didn't the last guy like 'prowmiz' to close Gitmo like eight years ago ?

When I read that I got I chills because it strikes me as a bit Hitleresque. Is Trump thinking that the prisoners in Gitmo are "extremely dangerous
people" because of their race and/or religious affiliation? Is anyone else a little frightened by that?

BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. They have been rotting in there for a long time under obama's watch. Is that not hitleresque?!?!?!?!?!!?!? The mental gymnastics
you are pulling right now. I can't believe I am even reading this. Is this real life.
This civic issue was the reason I favored him over mccain but then I seen he was full of it.

Hitleresque? HOW about having a kill list. Guess why there is no one in GitMo anymore...It's because they get Droned before they ever even get there!

The OP is not having a moral enlightenment moment, the OP is just searching for ways to find how their team is good and the other team is bad.

If Trump stops droning terrorist and instead sends them all to gitmo he would be on the moral high ground over Obama. That's how bad Obama was.

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a
tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.”

Didn't the last guy like 'prowmiz' to close Gitmo like eight years ago ?

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